Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

  
  
On 2/14/2018 10:37 AM, Shriramana
  Sharma via Unicode wrote:


  

  
On 14-Feb-2018 22:45, "Alastair
  Houghton" 
  wrote:
  


  

  

I’d hope that Mark Davis has “UNICODE” on his car. 
However, I’m not sure how relevant it really is to this
mailing list.
  

  



You're right. My apologies. It *is* somewhat OT
  to the actual purpose of this list. But I figured if anyone
  knew the answer to my question they'd be here.
  

There are some who would claim that the 'unicode'
list can't be said to have a "purpose" and should best be
avoided altogether :).
However, while there are posts and
discussions that really don't belong (or are bothersome, or otherwise
a misuse of the list), this thread, if it doesn't continue for
another 500 posts, would not seem to qualify...
A./

  

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Asmus Freytag via Unicode]

  
  
On 2/14/2018 8:14 AM, Shriramana Sharma
  via Unicode wrote:


  Given that in the US vanity vehicle registrations with arbitrary
alphanumeric sequences upto 7 characters are permitted (I am correct I
hope?), I wonder who (here?) owns the UNICODE registration?



Please note that the rules for this are set
on the state level, not to speak of territories. So, assuming
the local regulations do not forbid the word "UNICODE" for some
reason, there could be some 50 plus cars registered with that
license plate.
The actual number is anybody's guess,
although many people think they know who owned the first one of
these.
I've always thought it might be a neat idea
to get matching plates covering the entire series of UTFs, with
each car chosen to reflect some aspect of the encoding, e.g. "UTF-8"
smaller than "UTF-32", and "UTF-7" some oddball model...
A./
  
  

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Shriramana Sharma via Unicode]

On 14-Feb-2018 22:45, "Alastair Houghton" 
wrote:


I’d hope that Mark Davis has “UNICODE” on his car.  However, I’m not sure
how relevant it really is to this mailing list.


You're right. My apologies. It *is* somewhat OT to the actual purpose of
this list. But I figured if anyone knew the answer to my question they'd be
here.

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Alastair Houghton via Unicode]

On 14 Feb 2018, at 16:29, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode  
wrote:
> 
> Sorry but "UNICODE" does fit within those rules doesn't it?

Yes.  Stephane has misunderstood.  (Shriramana meant the literal text 
“UNICODE”, which is indeed composed of letters A-Z and meets the definition 
quoted.)

I’d hope that Mark Davis has “UNICODE” on his car.  However, I’m not sure how 
relevant it really is to this mailing list.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

--
http://alastairs-place.net

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer via Unicode]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:59:53PM +0530,
 Shriramana Sharma  wrote 
 a message of 54 lines which said:

> Sorry but "UNICODE" does fit within those rules doesn't it?

I doubt that the Departement of Motor Vehicles will accept "but it is
in category Ll" as a good reason :-)

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Andrew West via Unicode]

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Andrew


On 14 February 2018 at 16:24, Stephane Bortzmeyer via Unicode <
unicode@unicode.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:44:06PM +0530,
>  Shriramana Sharma via Unicode  wrote
>  a message of 6 lines which said:
>
> > Given that in the US vanity vehicle registrations with arbitrary
> > alphanumeric sequences upto 7 characters are permitted (I am correct
> > I hope?), I wonder who (here?) owns the UNICODE registration?
>
> Won't work in New York, unfortunately
>
> https://dmv.ny.gov/learn-about-personalized-plates
>
> "A character is a letter (A-Z), number (0-9) or space. Each space
> counts as one character."
>
>

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Shriramana Sharma via Unicode]

Sorry but "UNICODE" does fit within those rules doesn't it?

On 14-Feb-2018 21:54, "Stephane Bortzmeyer"  wrote:

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:44:06PM +0530,
 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode  wrote
 a message of 6 lines which said:

> Given that in the US vanity vehicle registrations with arbitrary
> alphanumeric sequences upto 7 characters are permitted (I am correct
> I hope?), I wonder who (here?) owns the UNICODE registration?

Won't work in New York, unfortunately

https://dmv.ny.gov/learn-about-personalized-plates

"A character is a letter (A-Z), number (0-9) or space. Each space
counts as one character."

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer via Unicode]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:44:06PM +0530,
 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode  wrote 
 a message of 6 lines which said:

> Given that in the US vanity vehicle registrations with arbitrary
> alphanumeric sequences upto 7 characters are permitted (I am correct
> I hope?), I wonder who (here?) owns the UNICODE registration?

Won't work in New York, unfortunately

https://dmv.ny.gov/learn-about-personalized-plates

"A character is a letter (A-Z), number (0-9) or space. Each space
counts as one character."